INFRA closing event

I N F RA

invites you to the closing event of a two year research project, with lectures by Yoga teacher Graham Hyman, cognitive neuroscientist Lennart Verhagen and video game theorist Rob Gallagher followed by the launch of the I N F R A publication.

I N FR A

is an artistic research project devised by Anna Gritz & Fatos Ustek, inspired by Marcel Duchamp’s observations on the infra-mince. Following Duchamp, the group composed of Karin Kihlberg & Reuben Henry, Aura Satz and Ian Whittlesea approach the I N F R A as something that cannot be captured through definition, but solely through examples.

I N FR A

sets out to allow apparently unrelated subjects to rub shoulders in order
to evaluate how, if at all, subjects foreign to one’s habitual research interests can be informative and inspiring. The project questions how much knowledge one can glean about a foreign discipline from an occasional sit-in, and what overarching patterns can be recognized between the various fields and methodologies encountered throughout the course of the project.

New Vision Forum node in London

Vision Forum is proud to announce a new node in London. The node is called Consonants and willfocus on curation. It is organised and run by Fatos Ustek and collaborators are: Charles Aubin, Maaike Gouwenberg, Rose Lejeune, Margarida Mendes, Margit Neuhold, Louise O'Kelly, Ben Roberts and Nadine Zeidler. You will find out more here.

Le Jardin de la Spéculation Cosmique - In Istanbul

Le Jardin de la Spéculation Cosmique

18.10 – 17.11.2012
Curator: Fatoş ÜSTEK
Artists:  Haluk AKAKÇE, Hussein CHALAYAN, Arik LEVY, Serkan ÖZKAYA & George L.LEGENDRE, Ali Emir TAPAN, Evren TEKİNOKTAY, Elif URAS, Nil YALTER

Le Jardin de la Spéculation Cosmique (Garden of Cosmic Speculation) emerges as a garden composed of artistic content. A garden of speculation on the nature of cosmos already exists in South West Scotland and is formulated by landscape architect and theorist Charles Jenks. The translations of cosmic compositions such as solitons, black holes, fractals appear as objects and installations in large scale on custom shaped trees, ponds and earth. The exhibition Le Jardin de la Spéculation Cosmique shares the same name with Jenks’ garden, yet it differs in kind. Following a counter-action to that of Jenks’ illustrative attitude in fabricating its cosmic speculative nature: the exhibition gathers positions that produce further the existing, the given.

The pieces trigger a conceptual beyond, rather than displaying illustrations of cosmos. They differ in kind from one other in their aesthetic manifestation and subject matter; yet they conceive acts of furthering the given, the existing. Those additional dimensions constitute the cosmic fabrication of speculation. The garden as a metaphor for an exhibition marks the structure of its constellation, as well as its mental space. An exhibition akin to that of a garden is a specification of conscious selection and exclusion of things, an organisation on an intellectual level; it contains many worldviews and relations at play. Le Jardin de la Spéculation emerges as an experience succeeded by the encounter of its viewer. The exhibition, hence, brings forth a multitude, a heterogeneous togetherness of distinct bodies of work in a constellation that of which formulates an imaginary garden.

Vision Forum and OuUnPo in Amsterdam

Vision Forum is proud to announce that Fatos Ustek and Sara Giannini will talk about the planned OuUnPo session in Beirut and the history of OuUnPo as part of a public debate about public space and democracy organised by the European Cultural Foundation.  Here is the program for the whole seminar:

October 4th 2012 18:00- Amitav Ghosh - key note speech

October 4th 2012 22:00 - Kinan Azmeh and Eric Vloeimans in concert

October 5th 2012 16:00 - Debate: Reclaiming public space – democratic practices reinvented?

October 5th 2012 20:30 - Belarus Free Theatre – performance

October 6th 2012 20:30 - European Souvenirs - live cinema remix performance

October 7th 2012 15:30 John Akomfrah – Film screening